Cross infection/Related Articles

See also changes related to Cross infection, or pages that link to Cross infection or to this page or whose text contains "Cross infection".

---

Parent topics

• Medical error [r]: Mistakes made in a medical setting with respect to patient care, sanitation or medical administration. A mistake is less than optimal action, thus failure to set up efficient procedures and routines which minimize mistakes is medical error. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Ventilator-associated pneumonia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surgical wound infection [r]: Infections that occur at the site of a surgical incision ^[e]

Other related topics

• Staphylococcus aureus [r]: Facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogenic coccus capable of producing suppurative lesions, furunculosis, pyemia, osteomyelitis, food poisoning, and may be resistant to commonly used antibiotics. ^[e]
• Clostridium difficile [r]: A bacteria species causing infectious diarhhea and pseudomembranous colitis. ^[e]